Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 20, 2022

Calvin, a true sign of a genius is someone who knows when to keep his mouth shut.

He’s not struggling with the concept of punching.

Calvin’s a genius alright. He really knows how to get beaten.

Did we learn anything today, Calvin?

He definitely knows how to trigger that poor neanderthal. Now if he only learned how to dodge a punch or two….

Boy, that wouldn’t be tolerated today…Moe would be out of there, he would have to attend anger management classes, and Calvin’s parents would sue everyone in sight.

At this point, Calvin can’t claim he’s a stable genius.

That’s another way of looking at here…I’m guessing be cheerful???

That’s an insult I’m going to use on a few people

Calvin needs an Omnitix that way he could get revenge on everyone that was jerk to him and no one would know it was him cause he would be transformed into an alien that could take down anything.He could also hang out with Lio cause bullies don’t live long when Lio is around.

Calvin , you forgot to run !

I’m sorry diehard C & H fans but this isn’t funny. Bullying is never funny.

I always enjoyed how Watterson made Moe’s speech bubble a lower-case scrawl as opposed to the uniform upper-case letters of everyone else.

I thought the comic strip websites have stopped showing cartoons with physical violence.

As I’ve said earlier today, Bill Watterson has explained that Moe is a caricature of the real-life bullies from his childhood. Someone has written of Brom Bones in the Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow “It always p***ed me off as a kid that Brom got the girl. He reminded me of every dumb bully who got off on making my life a misery.” Someone else replied, “I understand how you feel. I didn’t like him much either. However, in terms of love rather than greed, he’s more likeable than Ichabod.”

When I watched the Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in the 1970s, I also assumed Brom was meant to be a bully. When I watched a live-action version in the 1980s, I realised the important point that Brom really loved Katerina whereas Ichabod wanted her money and social prestige. This point was also evident in the Disney version but I was one of the viewers too young to realise it.

I have since learned that Ichabod was partly based on Washington Irving’s own schoolmaster and Brom Bones was based on Abraham Marling, a blacksmith in Sleepy Hollow and a hero of the Revolutionary War.

The teachers were very good at “correcting” Calvin’s indiscretions but Moe could bully kids with impunity.

Most bullies are knuckle dragging thugs….and most schools do NOTHING until there’s an incident, and parents get involved!

Calvin grew up to be an internet troll. More is still an a**

Unfortunately and more often than not, yes.

And the dentist happy.

People are saying Calvin should stand up to Moe and not let him push him around anymore… THIS is why Calvin doesn’t stand up to him!

A Young Sheldon moment, in the previous century. And millennium.

I was bullied in high school for reasons I still don’t know why. Only when I got in the kid’s face and stood up to him did I finally put the matter to rest. The look on his face was priceless when I had had enough. Eyes as wide as saucers and the proverbial mouth drop. Never had a problem after that. But chuckcork1 is correct. This is why bullies do what they do.

The little kid who can’t remember his homework is in no position to insult the special ed kid who is a Defensive lineman for the Pop Warner football team.

Why, you could hardly pass the entrance examinations to kindergarten.

And your shoes.

The truth hurts.

So – Calvin regularly wrestles with a tiger but not a human kid?

Unfortunately, Calvin must leave Hobbes at home when at school…

Hey, at least Calvin stood up to him. He won’t take Moe’s abuse without getting a few words in.

In which we learn the difference between intelligence and wisdom.

Its funny cause it’s relatable

If you cannot distinguish “truth” from “insult”, you deserve to be punched. Character analysis is not a “spectator sport”.

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in fruit salad.

Philosophy is knowing that ketchup is really tomato jelly, and a Bloody Mary is a smoothie.

The truth will get your blood flowing.

School – the only jurisdiction where you are forced to be there but have no right to self-defense

Well we’ll Calvin has finally met his match!!!

Overheard at the playground yesterday and disturbing on several levels (no, I’m not making this up).

Kid #1: Remember when I said I was going to kill myself?

Kid #2, offhandedly: I can strangle you now, if you like.

Kid #3, enthusiastically: I will!

Kid #1 sprints away, followed by #2 and #3, one of whom shouts, “Get him!”

That’s why being isn’t sufficient … you also need to have some kind of equalizer :)

The adult version of this is: “The boss may not always be right, but he is still the boss.”

I wonder what made Moe mad in panel 1. Seems to me that bullies don’t normally threaten death unless the victim did something to tick them off.

“The truth shall set your teeth free.” Classic line!

That is a pretty good right hand!

Yep, there was a similar kid at my Junior High school.

Then, one afternoon, when the bully left to go home out a ‘back’ door to the school, there were about 50 kids waiting for him.

They held rocks, sticks, bats, knives, and one kid even had a gun he took from his father’s desk.

The bully slowly walked through the group of kids, and then ran.

He never bullied anyone at that school ever again.

If Hobbes really existed Moe would be dead meat. Wonder if anyone’s done a depiction of that?

Next, just walk away quietly to tell the teacher he threatened you.

Calvin’s last line is both funny and the truth.

Why does every class always have one troglydite? We had one that use to play with his chest hair in third grade class…

Why do you show this kind of behavior in school in cartoons? Shouldn’t the bully get kicked out of school

The concept of walking erect is a fabulous jab at the bully. Only Bill can think of this.

Twinky saw more than little stars!

Or your teeth will be set free…of your gums.

A genius should know when to stay quiet.

Calvin read up on James 1:5 shortly there after.

Man just became Packgods level

he may be dumb, but he buff